Comments on: Superfast 3D Printing Yields Tiny Racecar, Church, Bridgeshttp://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/03/14/superfast-3d-printing-yields-tiny-racecar-church-bridges/
Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.5By: tOM Trottierhttp://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/03/14/superfast-3d-printing-yields-tiny-racecar-church-bridges/#comment-32102
Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:29:13 +0000http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=35760#comment-32102How fast can that racecar travel? And how do you produce axles and bearings?
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Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:04:35 +0000http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=35760#comment-32101That racecar ain’t goin’ nowhere — its tires are flat! Still, it’s quite an engineering feat.
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Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:30:14 +0000http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=35760#comment-32100What I am really wondering is what kind of original data they have for those models, particularly whether these are voxel or vertex based, because in case of 3D printing, I think voxel data makes so much more sense than vertices, as they can be much more directly reproduced in physical form, and there can be a direct connection between the resolution of the voxel data and that of the printed object.
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Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:42:36 +0000http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=35760#comment-32099Yes, you’re right! Fixed.
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Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:29:42 +0000http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=35760#comment-32098Excuse me for pointing this out, but I think from the electron-microscope scale the racing car is more likely to be 285 micrometres long, not 285 nm! Still very small, but visible to the naked eye and a little larger than a human hair (180 microns).
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